The machinery does not need to fail. It only needs to keep working in ways that make more of itself necessary.
At the limit lies bullshit: language sufficiently detached from external constraint that its capacity to provoke another cycle of response becomes more important than what it describes.
The present is not where possibility ends. It is where an immeasurably larger field of possible futures acquires one local history.
Knowledge takes form at the boundary between what can be articulated and what cannot yet, or perhaps cannot ever, be fully known. Hubris remains evanescent.
A nation cannot be unified by dividing a people against themselves. The danger begins when that contradiction becomes a political method.
Technocratic complexity and populist caricature are parts of the same feedback loop. Each produces the conditions that sustain the other.
Meaning repeats because recurrence builds structure, and structure influences what follows. History rhymes for much the same reason.
The probable is a proper subset of the possible. Old habits die hard because viable communication preferentially reproduces patterns that make themselves more likely to recur.
Disinformation does not persist because individual false claims survive. It persists because the communicative relations that make those claims meaningful continue to reproduce themselves.
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